AskMe Enterprise for Research and Development


		Highlights

			Dynamic Profiles enable your employees to locate each other quickly by their most up-to-date expertise.
			Identify Best Practices and enable all of your R&D groups to benefit from them.
			Reputation Management features motivate employees to share knowledge in a timely manner.

Drive innovation and bring products to market faster

R&D organizations face a number of key challenges while trying to generate market breakthroughs and innovations. Because research departments contain such a large number of subject-matter experts and because research teams are often geographically dispersed across different departments, business units, and regions, knowledge tends to cluster around existing teams in defined locations. As a result, it is extremely difficult for researchers to tap into other co-workers or groups that might possess critical expertise to help move their own research forward.

Employee Knowledge Networks have proven to be particularly powerful in this arena by ensuring that the right expertise is delivered to researchers when they need it most, regardless of their location or business unit. The results include faster time-to-market, more customer-focused products, and enhanced innovation.

The Benefits of an AskMe Enterprise R&D Solution:

Bring new products to market faster.
Increase the quality of research efforts by tapping into the collective knowledge of the entire researcher base.
Enable researchers to collaborate with other teams and groups in order to better understand customer and market needs.
Enhance innovation and uncover hidden synergies between different research teams.
Eliminate research redundancies by reusing existing solutions instead of reinventing the wheel.

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"The more active you are in a particular area, AskMe highlights you as a featured expert. People in the innovation area enjoy being seen as an expert. I think it gives a lot of personal satisfaction."
Mike Telljohann, associate director at P&G's technical center

Procter & Gamble Case Study
Read how consumer products giant Procter & Gamble turned to Employee Knowledge Networks to transform departmental experts into tangible information resources for the whole company.